Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan is a longtime ally of ACORN and has been since his days as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s housing development commissioner. The mainstream media doesn’t care about Donovan’s unsavory connections so the ethically questionable cabinet member continues doling out millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to his old friends at ACORN. Donovan is just one of several Obama cabinet members who kissed Al Sharpton’s ring at the convention his group, National Action Network, held recently in Washington, D.C.

Various ACORN front groups (Working Families Party, New York Communities for Change, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment) were deeply involved in organizing and participating in Occupy Wall Street protests and they’re gearing up right now to reelect President Obama in November.

Meanwhile, the ACORN front group New England United for Justice, which is headed by former national ACORN president Maude Hurd, has filed suit against Massachusetts.

The group accuses the Bay State of violating the National Voter Registration Act (a.k.a. Motor-Voter law). The accusation is hard to believe because in Massachusetts Obama’s close personal friend and fellow leftist Gov. Deval Patrick and the Democrat-controlled state legislature routinely bend over backwards to enforce all the latest politically correct diktats. The lawsuit itself (which may be viewed here) may be, among other things, an attempt to shake down the Commonwealth for money.

The plaintiffs are demanding several remedies including that more food stamp recipients and other individuals dependent on taxpayer largesse be placed on the voter rolls.

The plaintiffs are represented by several attorneys, among them Sarah Brannon and Sabrina Khan of Project Vote, the affiliate of ACORN that President Obama worked for in 1992. Khan is Project Vote’s election counsel and Brannon is director of the group’s Public Agency Registration Project whose mission is to carry out the Cloward-Piven Strategy of swamping the voter rolls with welfare recipients. (ACORN improved on the strategy by also registering illegal aliens, dead people, and cartoon characters.)

ACORN leaders have also been lobbying the Obama administration and working with Eric Holder’s Justice Department to water down laws that protect the integrity of the electoral system. ACORN operatives and many on the Left believe voter fraud is a myth invented by supposedly racist conservatives to prevent minorities from voting.

Perhaps Project Vote’s director of advocacy, Estelle H. Rogers, discussed efforts to undermine electoral integrity with administration officials during her visit to the Obama White House. Official visitor logs showed Rogers was to meet with a senior aide to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and with Van Jones’s former chief of staff.

Months before the bankruptcy filing 13-year ACORN veteran Nathan Henderson-James, then-director of ACORN’s online campaigns, explained the subterfuge ACORN was using to dupe Americans into believing the group was shutting down.

“It is definitely true that over the next week or so we should see a dozen or more organizations launched on the state level by staff who used to work for ACORN and leaders who developed their skills as ACORN members. These are not just simple name changes, but reimaginings of how best to organize low and moderate income constituencies without any of the legal problems and funding issues dogging ACORN, not to mention the brand damage,” Henderson-James wrote in a leaked email.

It is a “tactically smart . . . reaction to the global situation that helps the work of building power for poor people to continue,” he wrote.

ACORN’s ruse was designed to keep tax dollars and foundation grants coming in.

Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of the book, "Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers."

Swemson

Is this something that just happened, or is it a report on something that happened a while ago that was just revealed?

WilliamJamesWard

Seems to be both, are you back and how did the book go?………………William

Swemson

Still a work in progress….

& I never left….

fs

WilliamJamesWard

All of the tax dollars doled out by the Obama regime went down one rat hole or another and
from time to time we hear something about what those funds are doing. If the monies are being
used illegally who will stop it, Holder? not ever, so when you read anything like this at least
you know where your kids future has gone and the value of retirement dollars. Obama has
screwed up our financial system and caused the devaluation of our currency while his
amigos play, Congress and Obama must go, clean house in November………….William

StephenD

The issue is it is ongoing. This blatant corruption and misuse of taxpayer dollars continues and strengthens unabated because folks that don't kick into the system still get to vote. Hell, if I'm getting free money and in order to get more, which you promise, you have to raise taxes, which I don't pay anyway, I say, go for it! What would I care if you raised taxes? Keep my checks coming and you can do what you want!
The only clear-cut solution to this is to limit the PRIVILAGE of voting to those that pay into the tax system. Immediately these organizations would begin to dry up and the politicians would take heed of how they spend OUR MONEY if they ever wanted to get re-elected. Unless we do something like this, the corruption will grow until we are a Republic no more.

Spider

I agree with your premise – but it won't work because the Dems would just change the rules so the deadbeats would only pay 1$ in taxes per year so they can say "see I pay taxes" and then get the vote like every one else. Maybe you could have a weighted system where you get more votes if you pay in more. For example for every $1000 paid in taxes you get one vote – up to 5 max. They did this in some local elections where there were fairness issues…..

Guest

Gosh, it would be too bad to see all those senior citizens who don't pay into the tax system become unable to vote. Of course you would want to include anyone paying taxes at any level, right? Federal income tax, state income tax, sales tax, property tax, payroll tax? Who would we be leaving out?

weebee5jpf

You guys are always good for a laugh, every single day! If you feed on garbage 24/7, how can anything but garbage be spit out of your mouths, or your backsides for that matter. Either end, it's still crap. Too funny…that's your entire life.

Chris Gleason

You don't know what you're talking about. You're probably one of those 47% who don't pay any taxes, but take everything they can get. Just keep quiet and stay out of the way.

Guest

That figure is the percentage who don't pay federal income taxes, not who don't pay "any" taxes. Most are either elderly or working poor. Many of the poor DO pay social security/medicare taxes out of their paychecks. Do you really think that the values of the United States mean that the poor and elderly shouldn't be able to vote?

kasandra

As usual. Just spew. Ad hominem attack – the last refuge of the leftist when there is no cogent argument to be made. You don't point out a single item from this article that is untrue. Your post is simply worthless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLNn2YflwNs Roger

It's all they have.

poppakap

Hello pot. This is kettle. You're black.

notyranny

Impeachment is way overdue for this "president" and his mafia cabinet, about 3-1/2 years overdue. NWO puppet.

Jim_C

Too bad his opposition doesn't know any lawyers and congressmen to get-r-done, eh?

pagegl

Nope, his opposition is just too chicken sh!t to do it. Supposedly, Congress won't do it because they know it won't make it through the Senate. That's a lame-assed reason.

effemall

Impeachment will not be enough. He must be prosecuted and put away for life.

Jim_C

Hyperbolize much?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLNn2YflwNs Roger

He should at least pay for all of Michelle's and malia's traveling expenses.

Jim_C

Michelle's traveling expenses differ from Laura Bush's how?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLNn2YflwNs Roger

In size and scope.

kim

This evil did not start yesterday…but all the warnings were laughed at. Believing all the lies and loving them. I say if only Americans would even now dig deep as to who they are voting for. Some many claim who they vote for is good..Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee How much destruction do we have to see grow and spread like a cancer that is too far destructive that surgery is too late. I can see too many minds have been destroyed with lies and so they keep on keeping on voting them in…When are they all going to realize we have deceit on both sides of the gov. Throwing G-d out is the last straw as the Church is asleep at the wheel and in Apostasy…They don't seem to care but then that was one of the last remarks by the prophets in scripture…Like in the days of Noah, coruption is in everything..how sad

Linda Rivera

An inferior, IMMORAL health care plan that NO ONE wants and CANNOT afford to pay. The threat to jail and/or fine those who don't purchase the government enforced plan.

Massive spending as if there is no tomorrow. Fighting wars we have no money for. Massive borrowing.

$446 MILLION to ACORN Veteran

The Massive giving away of Billions of dollars every year to other countries, including the OIL-WEALTHY Middle East, Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Palestinian Authority organization who fill their war chests, build mansions and LAUGH all the way to the bank with FREE infidel money. Whilst in America, homeless shelters are filled to capacity; tent cities have sprung up all over the U.S. filled with desperate, jobless, homeless Americans.

Massive debt. The massive printing of paper money out of thin air to DELIBERATELY create out-of-control inflation. There is no question that the total DESTRUCTION of America's economy is planned. The results will be horrifying. In the once wealthy and great nation of America, millions of Americans will become destitute, hungry and homeless with no money or resources to help them.

Organic, non-GMO avocado, fruit and nut trees and berries must be planted in all of our nation’s cities’ and towns’ parks to help the many millions of Americans who will soon be in a desperate struggle to survive because of the frightening, highly destructive economic policies of our government.

how else can obama be elected without cheating and acorn is able to help him in that regard so acorn must be funded.

Jim_C

How has ACORN helped Obama cheat? What are the stats on illegally-registered ACORN voters voting?

kasandra

You're right. I guess the voter fraud for which ACORN affiliates were prosecuted in – was it 11 or 13 – states were in the service of electing Republicans.

Jim_C

Hmm, avoiding my question. Let's see, these individuals were convicted for turning in falsified registration forms. So how does that translate into votes? Does Mickey Mouse show up to the polls? Once again, I ask: How did ACORN help Obama cheat?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLNn2YflwNs Roger

Should any organization that even allowed fraud one time be funded with tax dollars?

kasandra

Not avoiding your question at all. By registering fictional, ineligible and dead people to vote, ACORN then brings in people to vote in their names and increases the tally for candidates ACORN favors. Get it? After all, they don't go thru this illegal exercise just to enroll more names on the voting rolls. And these "registered" voters invariably vote for people, like Obama, who want to serve ACORN's interests – i.e., give more money and benefits to people who don't feel like going out and earning them by the sweat of their brow. After all, our president worked for ACORN, served as their lawyer in Chicago and is on tape saying he's been with them all these years and they will have free access to him when he becomes president – which he unfortunately did. Or is this all too complicated for you to grasp?

kasandra

P.S. Here, let's put the burden on you. It's beyond cavil that ACORN has been involved in voter fraud. They've been convicted in numerous jurisdictions. So why do you think they do it since – in your view – turning in false registration forms doesn't translate into votes. Is it just a fetish they have for turning in false governmental forms? Are they simply merry pranksters. Or do they have more sinister aims in mind – aims that may often be realized?

Jim_C

Weren't they getting bonuses for quotas?

poppakap

Actually, yes. Mickey Mouse has turned up on several ACORN originated voter registration drives including a registration drive in St. Louis and one in Florida. Directly to your point, ACORN has been investigated/indicted for voter registration fraud in several different states including Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Washington, New Mexico, and Missouri. It helps Obama cheat because the ACORN goons target populations that rarely vote for political parties that don't extend government patronage.

That you attempt to deny that ACORN is corrupt to the core, even after congressional Marxists agreed to withdraw funding shows your particular proclivity toward red kool-aid.

Jim_C

I am fully aware Mickey Mouse showed up on the registration docs. But Mickey Mouse can not VOTE–that is the point. And there is no evidence of ACORN bringing Mickey Mouse in to vote.

fightwarnotwars

Can't wait for this website to crank up the crazy to 11, when Obama gets re-elected in November. Good times ahead!

pagegl

If you desire to live in abject poverty I guess so.

poppakap

Nothing would be crazier than expecting anything other than continued economic deterioration under our Socialist in Chief. You are right about good times being ahead; with independents, jews, and even blacks now turning against Obamao, a Romney victory is becoming all but certain.